So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSONResearch your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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If you come to me and say, ‘Hey look I’m a racist,’ or ‘I discriminate against blacks,’ or ‘I don’t like you because you’re African American.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
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Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
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You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
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